Lance Cade

I found out yesterday that former WWE tag team champion, Lance Cade, has died.

Cade was one of the most successful students to come out of Shawn Michaels' Wrestling Academy and secured a job with World Wrestling Entertainment not so long afterwards.

There is a saying that I have heard many wrestlers speak of and it is that 'the road owns you'.

In Cade's case, it certainly did.

Like so many before him, Cade developed a reliance on painkillers and - while in the biggest push of his career being involved in the Chris Jericho/Shawn Michaels feud - he overdosed on an aeroplane which had to make an emergency landing to help him.

WWE released him from his contract immediately.

A stint in rehab seemingly helped him secure another contract with World Wrestling Entertainment but he was never brought back to television and was later released again.

It's always sad when something like this happens. It's even sadder to know that he was only twenty-nine years old with two young children.

For everything good that comes out of following professional wrestling, there is often the stories like this that makes it seem like s place where some of its performers walk in clean and sober but end up being carried out lifeless.

Despite all the efforts to make everything right, clean it up and help people - it happens again.

And again.